Grim Ambition by Jennifer Reinfried

Author:Jennifer Reinfried [Reinfried, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superheroes | Supervillains
Publisher: Jennifer Reinfried
Published: 2017-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“So,” Alex said with a smile. “Have we learned our lesson yet?” He glanced at the blade of his folding knife, noting in the reflection how rhapsodic his eyes were, vividly green in the early morning light. Not a wink of sleep last night and I still look wide awake. He cleaned his lenses on his black polo shirt, which he’d changed into after leaving Emma’s earlier in the night. He’d also dressed in a pair of dark gray jeans and old black sneakers. His hands were covered by blue latex gloves mottled with blood. The stains on his dark clothes, however, were nearly impossible to see.

Alex sat backwards on a folding chair, his long legs spread. He replaced his black frames. Once they settled over the bridge of his nose, he crossed his arms over the back of the chair and raised one eyebrow at Dean Slatter.

The district attorney was tied down to a long, white, sturdy table covered in thick, heavy duty plastic strips. His hands and legs were immobile, and a dirty white cloth was stuffed in his mouth. Additional plastic had been placed along the entire area of the living room in the vacant, run-down apartment in Redborough’s Chinatown district. Nate had forced a terrified Slatter into the place at concealed gunpoint, sedated him slightly, and set up a makeshift torture table, all before Alex’s arrival. The DA’s green shirt was soaked through with sweat, and he’d wet himself half an hour ago. Three of the man’s fingers lay scattered under the table, which groaned under his weight, and his left hand dripped a constant trickle from where his digits used to be.

Blood pooled underneath Slatter’s head. It had accumulated as Alex happily pulled out four of the man’s teeth before he had gagged him. Tears streamed down Slatter’s plump face and snot clogged his nose, but he glared at his captor with a dope-filled hate.

“I don’t think you have.” Alex stood. He wiggled the knife he held. “Let’s see. First they threatened to remove her teeth. Then one of them had nearly taken her finger. I believe the last thing one of your men did before we arrived was kick her. Here.” He slid the blade into Slatter’s left side, and grinned as it buried into the man’s flesh, muscle, and fat with little resistance, until coming to a rest at the hilt.

Alex kept his eyes on the DA’s the entire time, took great pleasure in the howl of pain that leaked around the gag, and the mask of shock that swept over Slatter’s face.

“Shh.” Alex raised a bloody finger and let it hover near his own lips, then let out a manic giggle. “No wait,” he said suddenly, with feigned surprise. “It was her right side. My mistake.” He withdrew the blade, careful to step away from the ooze of blood that flowed from the wound, and slowly wandered around the table.

“It was here.” Alex slid the knife into Slatter’s right side, above his hip.

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